SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This prospectus and any prospectus supplement, and the information incorporated by reference herein contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Sections of this prospectus (including documents incorporated by reference herein) entitled “Risk Factors,” “Business Overview” and “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects,” among others, discuss factors which could adversely impact our business and financial performance.
You can identify these forward-looking statements by words or phrases such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “aim,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “likely to,’’ “potential,” or other similar expressions. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity requirements business, strategy and financial needs. These forward-looking statements include statements about plans, objectives, goals, strategies, market outlook, prospects, future events or performance, underlying assumptions, including the attractiveness of shallow water drilling and activity levels in the jack-up rig and oil industry, day rates, contract backlog, expected contracting and operation of our jack-up rigs, drilling contracts, and contract terms including day-rates, statements with respect to our ATM program, statements in relation to climate change matters and energy transition, expectations with respect to contracting rigs, expected industry trends including with respect to demand for and expected utilization of rigs, tender activity and new tenders, plans regarding rig deployment, statements with respect to newbuilds, including expected delivery dates, entry into new drilling contracts, including expected commencement date and duration of new contracts, statements with respect to our fleet and its capabilities and prospects, operational and financial objectives, including expected financial results and performance for periods for which historical financial information is not available and statements as to expected growth and growth prospects, margin, and dividend policy; statements with respect to our joint ventures, or JVs, including statements with respect to our JVs, including plans and strategy and expected payments from our JVs’ customers; our commitment to safety and the environment; environmental, social and other sustainability plans and goals; competitive advantages, business strategy, including our growing industry footprint, strengthening of our drilling industry relationships; our aim to establish ourselves as the preferred provider in the industry, establishment of high-quality and cost-efficient operations, statements with respect to compliance with laws and regulations; expected demand and oil and gas price trends, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, statements with respect to the potential impact of Russian military actions across Ukraine on oil prices as well as our business, statements about our expected sources of liquidity and funding requirements and our plans to address liquidity requirements including our debt maturities statements with respect to the agreements in principle reached with our secured creditors on refinancing our indebtedness, including covenant waivers to complete the refinancing, statements relating to the exercise of our newbuild purchase and financing agreements, statements relating to sales of rigs and expected sale proceeds including statements with respect to the letter of intent (LOI) to sell three of our rigs under construction, and our election to take early delivery of two rigs from Keppel including our ability to finance and refinance the related debt, the potential sale of other rigs, and the statements in our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F under the heading “Going concern” in Note 1 − General of the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements thereunder and our most recent interim financial statements incorporated by reference herein under the heading “Going concern” in Note 1 – General Information, outlook regarding results of operations and factors affecting results of operations, statements with respect to our obligations under our financing arrangements, statements with respect to agreements with certain of our secured creditors and other statements relating to agreements and expected arrangements with creditors, our commitment to safety and the environment, competitive advantages, and expected adoption of new accounting standards and their expected impact, as well as other statements in the sections entitled “Item 4.B. Business Overview—Industry Overview” and “Item 5.D. Trend Information” of our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, and other non-historical statements, which are other than statements of historical or present facts or conditions.
The forward-looking statements in this document are based upon current expectations and various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including, without limitation, management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in our records and other data available from third parties. These statements involve significant risks, uncertainties, contingencies and factors that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control, and that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be